{"id":20846,"date":"2025-07-25T10:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T10:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/20846\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T10:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T10:12:10","slug":"investigation-launched-after-death-of-elderly-couple-in-dandenong-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/20846\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation launched after death of elderly couple in Dandenong North"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police are investigating the death of an elderly couple at a home in Melbourne&#8217;s south-east.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A woman was found dead inside a property on Kaye Court, Dandenong North, about 1:30pm on Friday after authorities were called in by the couple&#8217;s relatives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The man was found injured in the driveway and was given medical treatment, but died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Inspector Rodney Maroney from Victoria Police said they suspected the deaths to be a case of murder&#8211;suicide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;They&#8217;ve lived here for a long time &#8230; and there&#8217;s been no indication of any issues whatsoever between them in the past,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s quite a sad situation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Inspector Maroney said neither of the two had a history of any activities known to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A formal cause of death is yet to be determined, with an investigation ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are investigating the death of an elderly couple at a home in Melbourne&#8217;s south-east. A woman was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,21466,10851,5315,11554,2968,44,1158,14248,16642],"class_list":["post-20846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-dandenong-north","tag-dead","tag-investigation","tag-man","tag-murder","tag-news","tag-police","tag-suicide","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}